Pygit2 is a set of Python bindings to the libgit2 shared library, libgit2 implements the core of Git. Pygit2 works with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3

Pygit2 links:

• http://github.com/libgit2/pygit2 -- Source code and issue tracker
• http://www.pygit2.org/ -- Documentation
• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pygit2 -- Download

1. Checkout the libgit2 stable branch:

   $ git clone git://github.com/libgit2/libgit2.git -b master

2. Build and install libgit2 https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/#building-libgit2---using-cmake

3. Install pygit2 with pip:

   $ pip install pygit2

For detailed instructions check the documentation, http://www.pygit2.org/install.html

Fork libgit2/pygit2 on GitHub, make it awesomer (preferably in a branch named for the topic), send a pull request.

56 developers have contributed at least 1 commit to pygit2:

J. David Ibáñez                          Andrey Devyatkin
Nico von Geyso                           Ben Davis
Carlos Martín Nieto                      Eric Schrijver
W. Trevor King                           Hervé Cauwelier
Dave Borowitz                            Huang Huang
Daniel Rodríguez Troitiño                Jared Flatow
Richo Healey                             Jiunn Haur Lim
Christian Boos                           Sarath Lakshman
Julien Miotte                            Vicent Marti
Jose Plana                               Zoran Zaric
Martin Lenders                           Adam Spiers
Victor Garcia                            Andrew Chin
Xavier Delannoy                          András Veres-Szentkirályi
Yonggang Luo                             Benjamin Kircher
Petr Hosek                               Benjamin Pollack
Valentin Haenel                          Bryan O'Sullivan
Xu Tao                                   David Fischer
Bernardo Heynemann                       David Sanders
John Szakmeister                         Eric Davis
Brodie Rao                               Erik van Zijst
David Versmisse                          Ferengee
Rémi Duraffort                           Gustavo Di Pietro
Sebastian Thiel                          Hugh Cole-Baker
Fraser Tweedale                          Josh Bleecher Snyder
Han-Wen Nienhuys                         Jun Omae
Petr Viktorin                            Óscar San José
Alex Chamberlain                         Ridge Kennedy
Amit Bakshi                              Rui Abreu Ferreira

• New remote ref-specs API: #290
• New Repository.reset(...): #292, #294
• Export GIT_DIFF_MINIMAL: #293
• New Repository.merge(...): #295
• Fix Repository.blame argument handling: #297
• Fix build error on Windows: #298
• Fix typo in the README file, Blog → Blob: #301
• Now Diff.patch returns None if no patch: #232, #303
• New Walker.simplify_first_parent(): #304

• Upgrade to libgit2 v0.20.0: #288

  Rename Repository.head_is_orphaned to Repository.head_is_unborn

  Prototype of pygit2.clone_repository(...) changed:

  # Before
  pygit2.clone_repository(url, path, bare=False, remote_name='origin',
                          push_url=None, fetch_spec=None, push_spec=None,
                          checkout_branch=None)
  
  # Now
  pygit2.clone_repository(url, path, bare=False, ignore_cert_errors=False,
                          remote_name='origin', checkout_branch=None)

• New Patch.additions and Patch.deletions: #275
• New Patch.is_binary: #276
• New Reference.log_append(...): #277
• New Blob.is_binary: #278
• New len(Diff) shows the number of patches: #281
• Rewrite Repository.status(): #283
• New Reference.shorthand: #284
• New Repository.blame(...): #285
• Now Repository.listall_references() and Repository.listall_branches() return a list, not a tuple: #289

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